Venki Ramakrishnan

Mention the ribosome on the other hand, and you will usually be met with blank faces, even from scientists. And yet, without ribosomes nothing lives. Offering a fascinating insight into what it is like to work at the cutting edge of modern science, Nobel Prize-winner Sir Venki Ramakrishnan will tell the story of his quest to determine the structure of the ribosome, and so resolve an ancient mystery at the heart of life itself.